Mayoral Pills: Prabhat Jha to meet BJP councilors, senior leaders

CHANDIGARH: With less than a week left before candidates battle it
out in the mayoral election, BJP national vice-president
Prabhat
Jha is going to meet councillors and senior party
leaders here on Sunday to arrive at a unanimous choice.

The meeting will be held at the party’s Chandigarh office in Sector
33.

Sources in the BJP confirmed that Chandigarh BJP president Sanjay
Tandon as well as local MP (member of Parliament) Kirron Kher were
recently called to New Delhi, where the senior leadership had
spoken to them at length on the issue.

At the two-day national BJP conference which ended on Saturday,
sources said the central leadership discussed candidates for the
posts ayor, senior deputy mayor and deputy mayor keeping in view
the upcoming parliamentary elections.

“The parliamentary elections are crucial for the party and the
local leadership has been briefed on it at the conference in New
Delhi. The city’s top leaders have been asked to arrive on a
consensus about the candidates before fielding them in the mayoral
election. With Tandon and Kher both eyeing the parliamentary
ticket, they are likely to go with the central mood,” said a senior
party leader.

The mayoral election is scheduled on January 18 and the saffron
party wants to formally announce the names of all the candidates
well in time before the internal tussles cast a negative impact on
the voting day, sources said.